Systems Approaches to Animal Disease Surveillance and Resource Allocation: Methodological Frameworks for Behavioral Analysis
Rosneft’s offshore partnerships: the re-opening of the Russian petroleum frontier?
During an intense period of only 14 months, from June 2010 to August 2011, six major cooperation agreements between oil companies were announced in Russia. Almost all of these partnerships involved offshore projects, with an international oil company as one of the partners and Rosneft as the other. The agreements were concentrated along Russia's Arctic petroleum frontier, and the three that survived the longest involved oil or gas extraction in the Arctic. This article analyses and compares the contents and contexts of the agreements, to ascertain what they have to tell about access for international companies to Russia's offshore petroleum resources and the influence of competing Russian political actors over the country's petroleum sector. The article argues that the new partnerships did represent an intention to open up the Russian continental shelf, and that the agreements were driven and shaped by a series of needs: to secure foreign capital and competence, to reduce exploration risk, to lobby for a better tax framework, to show the government that necessary action was being taken to launch exploration activities, to improve Rosneft's image abroad, and either to avert or prepare for future privatisation of state companies such as Rosneft.
The Diffusion of Power in Global Governance: International Political Economy Meets Foucault
Norske interesser - sett fra utestasjonene
Hva er Norges utenrikspolitiske interesser? De siste årene har det vært en diskusjon om norske interesser og utfordringer for norsk utenrikspolitikk. Disse refleksjonene har i liten grad vært relatert til empiriske undersøkelser av hva norske utestasjoner vektlegger og bruker sin tid på. I denne rapporten gjør vi nettopp en slik undersøkelse. Vi analyserer hva norske utestasjoner identifiserer og forfølger som norske interesser, og hvilke interesser andre land signaliserer overfor norske utestasjoner. Vi er ikke bedt om å si noe om eventuelle konsekvenser for ressursallokering, og rapporten behandler derfor ikke dette temaet. Bakgrunnen for denne rapporten er at Norsk utenrikspolitisk institutt (NUPI) har fått i oppdrag av Utenriksdepartementet å gjennomføre en analyse av hva den norske utenrikstjenesten selv definerer som sine interesser, hvordan de fortolker disse, og hvordan dette påvirker aktivitetene ved utestasjonene. Rapporten er basert på de data som Utenriksdepartementet selv har samlet inn fra utestasjonene. I alt omfatter dette materialet 87 interesseanalyser.
The structure and dynamics of cut flower export markets from Kenya and Ethiopia - with particular reference to trade with Norway
Are attitudes conducive to economic growth stronger in protestants than in others?